Yesterday evening I went over to Chelmsford to attend the Ordination of a Norbertine friend from as a priest. I got to know him whilst he was a student here in Oxford. The service was held at the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, which is served by the Norbertine community from St Philip's Priory. Being a medievalist I always tend to refer to them by their other name as Premonstatenians, but that’s just me.
The Ordination was conducted by H.E.Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, and was attended by two mitred abbots, other Premonstratensians from England and Belgium and Australia, plus Oratorians, Dominicans, secular diocesan clergy and also nuns from the Ordinariate, and by many parishioners and friends of the candidate from Oxford - most of the usual suspects were there and some others - and from elsewhere, and, not least noteworthy, a uniformed Honour Guard armed with swords and their flag from a Fraternity to which he belonged whilst studying at the University of Louvain.
The Ordination was conducted by H.E.Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, and was attended by two mitred abbots, other Premonstratensians from England and Belgium and Australia, plus Oratorians, Dominicans, secular diocesan clergy and also nuns from the Ordinariate, and by many parishioners and friends of the candidate from Oxford - most of the usual suspects were there and some others - and from elsewhere, and, not least noteworthy, a uniformed Honour Guard armed with swords and their flag from a Fraternity to which he belonged whilst studying at the University of Louvain.
The Cardinal lays his hands on the candidate’s head in the Ordination rite
Image: Norbertine Vocations
A set of photographs of the Ordination on can be found on this Facebook page, and another set from his First Mass, which he celebrated this morning, can be seen on this Facebook page.
